Joga Podnito Episode 17 - There Is No League

The Joga lads return and Week 22 of the Premier League is discussed. Tottenham and City play out a thrilling draw at the Etihad, United rescue a draw at Stoke, Liverpool stumble, and Chelsea look to have won the league with time to spare. Continental Corner returns as well, where Napoli's chances against Real Madrid in Champions League are looking better by the day. Subscribe to Joga Podnito on iTunes!

ON ROSS BARKLEY, AND THE FEARLESSNESS OF YOUTH

Courage is a term thrown about recklessly with regards to sport. One may attribute this to the role sport fills in our lives; an argument can be made that in the absense of armed conflict, games played on a court, pitch or field fulfill a primitive urge to compete, and to be victorious. The tribalism that accompanies sport is a by-product of this, and helps to explain the mania of supporters who feel intrinsically tied to a club by geography, heritage or social standing. This is why such words as 'courage', and 'heroic' are tied so often with athletic feats, as sport brings out an energy and passion that is perhaps only rivaled, albeit to a far greater degree, by war. We may say that 'battles' are fought on the pitch between rival clubs, but as fans we know this to be hyperbole, an overdramatization of something that has greater importance to us than perhaps it should.